sample="quota" bates="MNAT00275767" isource="atc" decade="1970" class="ni" date="19760720" EDWARD M. BASS, M.D. PH.D. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE DIRECTOR, CHANNING LABORATORY PLEASE REPLY TO: CHANNING LABORATORY 774 ALBANY STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02110 (617) 4340-5283 July 20, 1976 Dr. Gary Huber Beth Israel Hospital 330 Brookline Avenue Boston, Mass. 02215 Dear Gary: Recently I have been in touch with Nick Wald, who is a member of the Regius Department of Medicine in Oxford. I came to know Nick very well while I was in Oxford, since we shared a room and were altogether very friendly. He is an excellent internist and epidemiologist and one of the brightest younger men I have met in a long time. He has been much interested, as you undoubtedly know, in the carbon monoxide problem in relation to cigarette smoking and has assembled a great deal of further evidence on the potential role of carbon monoxide in the pathogenesis of coronary disease accompanying smoking. He early became enough interested in the problem to try to discover ways to capture the carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke, and has developed and patented a resin called hapgolite, which seems to be very effective. I imagine the tobacco people already know a great deal about it but if not, I should think this would be of considerable interest to them. Nick would be available, I am sure, to come over and talk tot hem about it, and this is particularly so because his wife is an American and her sister is married to a professor of chemistry at Harvard College. At any event, if you could transmit this letter to any of the people whom you know in the industry, I shall appreciate it. If I can be useful in facilitating communications with Dr. Wald I shall be happy to do so. His address is: Dr. Nicholas Wald Department of the Regius Professor of Medicine Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford, England I hope all is well and that your plans are proceeding in a happy manner. With best wishes. Sincerely yours, Edward H. Kass EKH/sf